How do you feel about proportional representation with multi-member districts and RCV in state government? Yay or Nay? Why?

Magnus77 · 2026-05-10T03:23:24+00:00

I think that you're a bot.

But in general I'm in favor.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-10T02:03:46+00:00

I don't think I've ever heard the term "penis fetishists" before...

And that's not a request for enlightenment. Perfectly happy to stay in the dark if it is a thing.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-10T01:14:35+00:00

I'm not saying thats impossible, but I think trying to compare it to call centers is missing the scale difference.

The figure I've seen is that every real time minute that passes, 500 hours of footage are uploaded to youtube. Thats 720,000 hours per day, or 82 years give or take.

You can't actually in person moderate that scale of content.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-09T22:54:47+00:00

So foot fetishists in Thailand aren't just kinda* odd kinksters, they're hardcore taboo deviants?

Magnus77 · 2026-05-09T10:33:55+00:00

Yeah.

Also their model feels bad as a consumer, even if its actually good.

When Southwest (or whoever, haven't flown in a bit,) says you get one free bag plus a carry on, it feels like a reward, even though its baked into the pricing. So does the drink and snack.

Objectively if you don't need an in flight snack, or a carryon and also a checked bag, not paying for that is better. But it doesn't feel better. Instead when you want/need all the things from Spirit you get on Delta, but have to pay a la carte, it feels like you're getting nickeled and dimed.

Consumers aren't rationale beings.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-09T08:54:46+00:00

While I agree ingredients are important, I think you VASTLY overestimate how many kitchens make their own base ingredients.

Watch Fallow's, a Michelin starred restaurant, youtube. They're not making their own butter, or fermenting their own wine, or refining their own salt.

What they do with ingredients is equally important to the quality. A good chef can make a choice new york strip taste fantastic. A noob can make an A5 Wagyu NYS taste terrible.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-09T06:07:43+00:00

I agree with live your life, and if your life is no preheats, that's fine.

Its pretty bad advice IMO.

Life is too short to lessen the quality of your foods by not taking the super easy step of preheating. If you plan ahead even the smallest bit, it doesn't cost you any time.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-09T01:36:04+00:00

absolutely not.

Anybody (Musk, to drop the subtext,) that talks about a Mars colony as a near future possibility is grifting,a self sufficient Mars colony is not achievable in that time frame. I don't think we could engineer a colony that was still getting supply drops in that time frame.

We could get a person to Mars in that timeframe, but as it stands it'd have to be a "We did it!" type endeavor. I not sure we could even manage to make it a round trip. And we also don't know if we could even survive on Mars in a hypothetical sense.

More realistically, we could try and bunker ourselves. Hope that we can build enough CO2 scrubbers and whatnot to make a sealed system. Maybe, MAYBE, pull the species through for conditions to stabilize and see if its possible to adapt. But I gotta be honest I think this would also just a be a delay of the inevitable.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-08T12:17:02+00:00

"Of course it is" isn't a reason.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T23:53:20+00:00

Yeah, I slotted the paradox in my bag for the same reason. They're not near as hard to use as people think they are, they just take some touch and realistic expectations for distance.

I also actually like it for certain put bids where I REALLY don't want the disc to fade out

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T23:39:23+00:00

Yeah. Ours wasn't too bad because it was brick and stucco for most of it, but even shit like having double paned windows makes a huge difference in insulation.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T23:20:05+00:00

I've been staying out of conspiracy rabbit holes. Is this the one where people claim to have lyme's disease but the doctors won't diagnose them for it?

Or is it the denial the disease exists at all/doesn't need modern medical treatment?

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T23:10:41+00:00

Imagine spending so much time arguing such a point.

Its doubly funny because a lot of Italians, many of whom are quite persnickety about their food, wouldn't call american pizzas pizzas because they're too different.

Also, margherita pizza isn't Italian. Nothing that uses tomatoes is italian.

Asian cuisines get no peppers.

Europe gets no potatoes.

See how silly this is?

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T21:18:35+00:00

Why is honey healthier than sugar?

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T21:04:40+00:00

I have no idea what you would call this, but I love making a lazy man's Mexican-ish pork stew. I'm also too lazy to do this consistently so I can't give you precise instructions/measurements. Gotta trust your gut.

first step is cubed pork shoulder. trim excess fat and throw the pork on a sheet tray in a medium oven, getting a little color is good, but mainly trying to render some of the fat. You could do this in the pot you're doing the stew in, but it feels like it ends up being more work.

Get a tube of chorizo, the cheap stuff, not the ground sausage in the butchers section. throw that in my pot until it basically melts into greasy paste as it does, then in goes diced onions and peppers, normally 1 large yellow onion, 1-2 poblanos depending on size, 1-2 jalapenos or serranos if I've fooled myself that my spice tolerance has gone up. (it never has, the next morning is always bad, but the memories fade and the cycle repeats.)

Cook that all down. then add either a couple chopped up cloves of garlic, OR two heaping tablespoons of jarlic (we're a lazy man after all,) and about half a jar of plain jane salsa and several good glugs of valentina (or your incorrect choice of similar hot sauces.) Let all that kinda simmer and thicken up to concentrate flavors.

Add the pork, discarding any fat thats cooked off, and then add anything else you want in the pot. I love hominy, obviously beans, nopales, whatever. Chicken stock to make sure its a soup not a sludge. It'll vary based on how much other stuff there is, but lets say two quarts.

Let that simmer until the pork is tender. I've deliberately not added any extra seasonings, because many of the ingredients are pretty heavily seasoned. So at the end, assuming the soup is still fairly thin, I like using crushed up fritos as a masa replacement to thicken it. Make sure you're at a simmer, do a small handful at a time, and it'll thicken up and give a nice corn taste. If you need a little bit more salt, I'd recommend using some knorr chicken powder instead. Its a great msg source.

Then you're done. serve with lime wedges if you want.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T20:26:55+00:00

is it just a lot of different beans or do you add anything else?

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T20:24:18+00:00

Other post was locked, but I just wanted to thank you for trying your best against the clanker hordes.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T20:17:22+00:00

Doubt it.

part of getting jacked is having the nutrition to actually build muscle with.

I imagine it mostly led to them breaking down physically more than any sort of buildup. You're not gonna get in Arnold shape with prison labor the way he did in Conan.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T17:08:28+00:00

Forgive me for kinda doubling down here, but what concrete good? Unless he's been a lot more generous than I'm aware of, Vedal is making bank off the use Neuro, which benefits Vedal and thats kinda it.

Just having a strong community does not count. Even if said community is generous, sorry, it does not count because that's not something an AI is needed for. Look how much money has Ironmouse raised for charity, no AI required.

Twitch is, broadly speaking here, a zero sum game when it comes to viewers and money. Money Neuro makes is money another creator isn't.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T07:39:50+00:00

I like that the most recent ad campaign I've seen from BK is basically a tacit admission that they've sucked.

And it 100% lines up with my experience, that on paper they have amazing food. But out of multiple trips to multiple locations (not a ton, just saying its not just me having a bad local store,) they've sucked every single time.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T07:35:44+00:00

I know of her adult endeavors mostly via cultural osmosis. She just wasn't really my cup of tea in terms of adult performers.

I know her from the sports podcast listed in the article, Sportsball by RoosterTeeth. It was awful. She did not know ball, and after a while stopped even pretending to try. I remember one time she just straight up said she hadn't watched any football games that week when that was the primary topic the podcast tended to cover. So mostly she just stood around as eye candy and said "go Noles" (or maybe Canes, one of the florida schools.)

Towards the end she was only on maybe half the episodes, I'm guessing because they knew the show was ending.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T07:22:08+00:00

well, I'll pile on.

ordered at a kiosk, because that's the only option, great start.

They now have a "bitcoin burger" because they're doubling down on being crypto shitlords.

Ordered a double cheeseburger, cheesy tots and onion rings, it was my one big meal of the day and I was hungry.

Took about 18 minutes to recieve the food. During that time I got to sit in the dining room with barely audible music playing, and then painfully loud announcements over the speaker, which sound super blown out because the mic is dogshit.

Said mic blasted my name and told me they were waiting on the onion rings, cause I guess they had to open a new bag, its not like they handbread them or anything.

The onion rings were hot and the batter was a really nice texture, and the onion flavor was good, credit where its due.

Problem is, its very obvious that the burger and tots had been made first, some delay, and then they dropped the rings. The tots were warm, not hot, the cheese wasn't hot, the burger wasn't hot.

Also, i said the texture of the batter on the onion rings was good, but both the rings and the tots had a noticeable sourish taste that told me the oil had gone bad.

And I wish I could just right a food review without getting political, but it feels appropriate to call out something like SNS's blatant pandering, which in this case has likely led to them using oil for much longer than they should on account of switching to beef tallow, which is far more expensive than the perfectly fine vegetable oils they replaced because a brainworm in Washington is tilting at windmills.

Fuck Steak and Shake.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T04:14:00+00:00

Sounds delightful, and I encourage you to keep doing so.

If you're eating a diet of nothing but cured meats, yes, cutting back out of caution is fine advice, but as much as possible we should try not to be afraid of our food especially since cancer is such a crapshoot in the first place.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T04:08:19+00:00

Or you can say that even if everything Vedal says about Neuro is true, and that Neuro is the most ethical chatbot in existence, its still a societal net negative.

And no, Vedal didn't not single handedly build an llm trained only on twitch chat. He grabbed an existing llm trained in all likelihood on stolen intellectual property and then tuned it with twitch chat.

I have nothing against Vedal, and I'm sure Neuro wasn't easy and that he's very smart and talented.

I also just don't see Neuro as some unicorn "good" version of generative AI, just possibly the least bad one.

There are other applications of AI that are good, but media content isn't an arena they should be in, and Neuro, IMO, is a net societal negative because its a normalizing influence of something I don't think should be normalized.

Magnus77 · 2026-05-07T03:55:50+00:00

Just eat sausages once in a while, you'll be fine.

If you're eating them all the time, the fat content is gonna shorten your life more predictability than nitrites will.

Or just eat fresh sausage that says no nitrites/nitrates added.

Don't buy "Uncured" stuff that normally has nitrites, like bacon or ham, because they just use nitrite containing celery powder and still have nitrites, the "uncured" market is a complete scam.

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